Monthly Archive for September, 2014

: September, 2014

Historic home This graceful La Habra Heights home might look familiar to any fan of California-style Spanish architecture—its arches, high, dark beamed ceilings, and courtyard setting are the careful embellishments of Cliff May, one of the most well-respected architects of the 20th Century. May’s career may indeed have been launched with this home. It was …

News item one: Marin’s largest home sold last month. News item two: it sold for a relatively small amount, just $5.05M. A lot, yes, but think back to some of San Francisco’s most expensive residential single-family home sales last year and that amount barely registers. News item three: the seller is the U.S government. The …

Real estate site Zillow.com recently did a study on waterfront homes in the United States. What they found is that the value of waterfront is now twice as much as other homes. Two decades ago, waterfront properties were worth 64 percent more than others, today they are worth 116 percent more, according to Zillow. “Using …

This is the true story about a condo on Lombard Street that was on a reality show in the ’90s. You guessed it, Generation X-er! MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco’s communal living space is currently available on San Francisco’s white-hot rental market for a measly $5,800. 951 Lombard Street was home to The Real …

Finally, a home that makes a San Francisco housing prices seem affordable: Le Palais Royal, a Beaux Arts palace reclining on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, has just been listed for $139 million. That makes this 60,000-square-foot mansion the most expensive current listing in the continental U.S. The exterior The property, unsurprisingly, boasts a long list of impressive–and …

So it was 7 days before my niece was having her wedding rehearsal dinner at our house in June and we were basically ready except that we were in total denial about the dreaded sunroom. We’d been using it as a storage room and it was full of paint cans, old boxes, whatever didn’t have […] …